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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious what people think it would take to make Eastern a strong option. It seems like a lot of the ingredients are there. The neighborhood has tons of families who I think would prefer to send their kid to a diverse public school, but aren’t comfortable picking one with so few kids on grade level and so few options for strong students. The IB program seems like a great potential solution to that—why hasn’t that taken off? Have they just not done enough to make it attractive? Making Eastern stronger would help the middle schools too, I would think. What is the barrier? I’m genuinely asking because I just don’t know. [/quote]

You will never get but in when you have kids 4-5 grade levels apart in a class.

You will never get buy in when your top tier and best for performance is grade level.

You will never get buy in when you refuse to track academically and all you care about is the bottom half.

You will never get buy in when you continue to lower academic standards in the name of equity.

Some families may tolerate above in elementary but stakes are much higher in middle school and you can’t just supplement everything in addition to all day wasted at school. [/quote]

And that is why there have never been, and are not now, any white college-bound kids at J-R. /sarcasm[/quote]

Be real. JR is located in an area where there are tons of very highly educated, mostly white families. It’s like two schools in one. Well educated families demand well educated kids. And poorly educated parents generally don’t. It’s a very weird school. Very unique to DC. But that’s not Eastern’s reality

I don’t know how you change things. A good principle can’t undo bad parents and a stressful environment. Genuinely have no idea. But lowering standards to below the basement isn’t the way. Fear that we’re in a doom loop with some schools [/quote]

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